Quotes About Dependence

The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.

A man in armor is his armor's slave.

And this is that Homer's golden chain, which reacheth down from heaven to earth, by which every creature is annexed, and depends on his Creator.

The world is ruled by necessity: People change their behavior only if they have to. They will feel urgency only if their lives depend on it.

THE BLIND HEN A hen who had lost her sight, and was accustomed to scratching up the earth in search of food, although blind, still continued to scratch away most diligently. Of what use was it to the industrious fool? Another sharp-sighted hen who spared her tender feet never moved from her side, and enjoyed, without scratching, the fruit of the other's labor. For as often as the blind hen scratched up a barley-corn, her watchful companion devoured it. FABLES, GOTTHOLD LESSING, 1729-1781

we continually consult our smartphones as a kind of substitute pair of eyes upon us.

Better to have others depend on you out of fear of the consequences of losing you than out of love of your company.

Make people depend on you. More is to be gained from such dependence than courtesy. He who has slaked his thirst, immediately turns his back on the well, no longer needing it. When dependence disappears, so does civility and decency, and then respect.

This is the model: Make others dependent on you. To get rid of you might spell disaster, even death, and your master dares not tempt fate by finding out. There are many ways to obtain such a position. Foremost among them is to possess a talent and creative skill that simply cannot be replaced.

One last warning: Do not imagine that your master's dependence on you will make him love you. In fact, he may resent and fear you. But, as Machiavelli said, it is better to be feared than loved. Fear you can control; love, never.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

A man without trust might as well be dead.

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.

if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.

True humility, we believe, consists of two things. The first is knowing our limitations. And the second is getting the help we need.

But of course, without the top you can't have any sides. It's the top that defines the sides.

the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That's why you need the peace of mind.

you are counting on people you have grown to love and trust

He claims that the ring is all he has left and if it was stripped away, he'll crumble.

he naturally clung desperately to his job.

The person who signs the paycheck has the power to enslave another person's body, mind, and soul.

Well, one must be a slave to something in this kind of a world,' he said.

Like the seminarian relying more on his knowledge of Hebrew than on the Spirit to hear God's voice in the text, we're more prone to carefully maneuvering our way through life than to abandoning ourselves to divine providence.

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.